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Altab Ali
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'''Altab Ali''' (1953 – 4 May 1978) was a [[Bangladesh]]i [[textile]] worker who was murdered by three teenagers on 4 May 1978 in a racist attack as he walked home after work.  His murder took place at St. Mary's Gardens by St Mary's Churchyard, and near the corner of Adler Street and [[Whitechapel Road]] in [[London]].  It provoked the mass mobilisation of the [[Bengali people|Bengali]] community locally and came to represent the self-organisation of the commu(contracted; show full)

==Death==
On 4 May 1978, on [[Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election, 1978|local borough election]] night and against a background of agitation by [[National Front (UK)|National Front]],<ref name="Being Bengali"/> Ali was making his way to the bus stop after finishing work<ref name="Muslims in Motion">{{cite book |last=Kibria
  |first=Nazli |date=2011 |title=Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora  |url=https://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=RJeEFctj5PUC&pg=PA86&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMI-b_J9frsyAIVQrIUCh1ZJgqI#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=2011  |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]  |page=86  |isbn=978-0-8135-5056-5}}</ref> as a textile<ref name="morningstaronline">{{cite news |last=Rashid|first=Harounor|url=http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ed64-May-Day-Linking-workers-from-east-London-to-Bangladesh#.Vjt2nyucegZ|title=May Day: Linking workers from east London to Bangladesh|work= |location=London|publisher=''[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Morning Star]]''|date=1 May 2014|accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref> factory<ref name="Judaism, Christianity, and Islam">{{cite book |last=Gilman  |first=Sander L. |date=2014 |title=Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Collaboration and Conflict in the Age of Diaspora  |url=https://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=d3AfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA171&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBWoVChMIg-vQ0ar6yAIVgrkUCh0gXgg5#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=2015  |publisher=[[Hong Kong University Press]]  |page=171  |isbn=978-988-8208-27-2}}</ref> garment worker at a sweatshop in [[Brick Lane]].<ref name="Being Bengali"/> He was chased along [[Brick Lane]] and stabbed to death near [[Aldgate tube station|Aldgate Station]]<ref name="East End Chronicles">{{cite book |last=Glinert  |first=Ed |date=2006 |title=East End Chronicles|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R4kdCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT309&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBzgyahUKEwjF0ejOrvrIAhXJwBQKHST7Dss#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=2006|publisher=[[Routledge]] |publisher=Penguin |page=268 |isbn=978-0-14-101718-1}}</ref> in a racially motivated attack<ref name="Education, Racism, and Reform">{{cite book |last1=Troyna  |first1=Barry  |last2=Carrington  |first2=Bruce |date=1990 |title=Education, Racism, and Reform  |url=https://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=k5DfVXjddHsC&pg=PA30&dq=Altab+Ali+white+black&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIota-qoXtyAIVi-0UCh37LAnn#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali%20white%20black&f=false|year=1990  |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]  |page=30  |isbn=978-0-415-03826-3}}</ref> at St. Mary's Gardens, the site of the church of [[St Mary Matfelon]]<ref name="After the Cosmopolitan?">{{cite book |last=Keith  |first=Michael |date=2005 |title=After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism  |url=https://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=vMt_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAmoVChMI-b_J9frsyAIVQrIUCh1ZJgqI#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=2005  |publisher=[[Routledge]]  |page=144  |isbn=978-0-415-34169-1}}</ref> by St Mary's Churchyard, and the corner of Adler Street and [[Whitechapel Road]].<ref name="UKIA"/><ref name="20thcenturylondon">{{cite web |url=http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conInformationRecord.294 |title=Bangladeshi London|publisher=Exploring 20th century London|date= |accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref>

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The murder provoked a mass mobilisation of the Bengali community locally<ref name="Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"/> The protest against the murder politicised a generation of young Bengali activists<ref name="Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"/> and many any Bangladeshis were drawn into political activity in the aftermath of the murder.<ref name="A People's History of London">{{cite book |last1=German
  |first1=Lindsey  |last2=Rees  |first2=John |date=2012 |title=A People's History of London  |url=https://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=7BN6m4LSkOQC&pg=PA248&dq=Altab+Ali&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCGoVChMI-b_J9frsyAIVQrIUCh1ZJgqI#v=onepage&q=Altab%20Ali&f=false|year=1988  |publisher=[[Verso Books]]  |page=248  |isbn=978-1-84467-855-6}}</ref> This began a movement that eventually pushed the National Front out of Whitechapel, and helped affirm Bengali identity there.<ref name="standard"/>

[[File:Entrance, Altab Ali Park.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Entrance to [[Altab Ali Park]]]]
(contracted; show full)e="eastlondonadvertiser2"/><ref name="eastlondonadvertiser1">{{cite news |last=Barnett|first=Adam|url=http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/anti_racists_and_bangladeshis_mark_altab_ali_day_in_whitechapel_1_3589309|title=Anti-racists and Bangladeshis mark Altab Ali Day in Whitechapel|work= |location=London|publisher=''[[Docklands and East London Advertiser|East London Advertiser]]''|date=7 May 2014|accessdate=1 November 2015}}</ref>

==See also==
*
  [[British Bangladeshi]]
*  [[List of British Bangladeshis]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*  [http://www.sublimephotography.co.uk/eastendphotos/whitechapel/photos/big/altabali.jpg Altab Ali Park entrance]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ali, Altab}}
[[Category:1953 births]]
[[Category:1978 deaths]]
[[Category:Anti-Asian sentiment]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi Muslims]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi expatriates in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:British people of Bangladeshi descent]]
[[Category:English murder victims]]
[[Category:People murdered in London]]
[[Category:People from Sylhet District]]
[[Category:People from Whitechapel]]
[[Category:Deaths by stabbing in England]]
[[Category:Racially motivated violence in England]]